Лексический минимум
travelling, journey - путешествие;
tour – тур;
trip - поездка;
voyage – морское путешествие;
cruise - круиз
to travel abroad (around the world) – путешествовать за границу (вокруг света)
to travel on business (for pleasure) – ездить по делам (ради удовольствия)
to see new places – увидеть новые места
to meet new people - познакомиться с новыми людьми
to change a scene – сменить обстановку
to travel by car -– путешествовать на машине
to be at the wheel – быть за рулём;
driving license – водительские права;
road (highway, freeway) – дорога (шоссе/трасса, автострада)
petrol station - заправка
to fill up – заправлять машину
to stay at the motel – остановиться в придорожном отеле (мотеле)
to travel by bus - путешествовать на автобусе
coach – туристический автобус
schedule – расписание
bus station - автовокзал
terminus – конечная остановка
luggage compartment – багажное отделение
to travel by train – путешествовать на поезде
to get on/ off the train – сесть на поезд/сойти с поезда
carriage – вагон
compartment - купе
dining – car – вагон-ресторан
sleeping car – спальный вагон
one way ticket/return ticket – билет в один конец/туда и обратно
railway station – вокзал;
waiting room – зал ожидания;
refreshment room – буфет
police station – полицейский участок
cloak room – камера хранения
booking-office – касса
inquiry-office – справочное бюро
to travel by air – путешествовать воздушным транспортом
plane/aircraft/jet – самолёт, воздушный лайнер, реактивный самолёт
domestic flight (international) – внутренний рейс (международный рейс)
to take off/to land – летать/приземляться
departure lounge – зал вылета
to go through passport control – проходить паспортный контроль
customs – таможня
to travel by sea – путешествовать по воде ship/liner/steamer – корабль, лайнер, пароход
to board the ship/ go ashore – сесть на корабль/
сходить на берег
life-boat - спасательная шлюпка
life buoy – спасательный круг
deck – палуба
command bridge – капитанский мостик seasickness - морская болезнь
to travel on foot – путешествовать пешком
to go hiking (hiker) – ходить в походы (пеший турист)
to go camping – жить в лагере
to go mountaineering - заниматься скалолазанием
route (to take a route) – маршрут (проходить маршрут)
rucksack – рюкзак
fishing – рыбная ловля
sleeping bag – спальный мешок
tent - палатка
Текст 1. A Sea Trip
"No", said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip."
I objected to the sea trip strongly. A sea trip does you good when you are going to have a couple of months of it, but, for a week, it is wicked.
You start on Monday with the idea that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Co¬lumbus all rolled into one. On Tuesday you wish you hadn't come. On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, you wish you were dead. On Saturday you are able to swallow a little beef tea, and to sit up on deck, and answer with a wan, sweet smile when kind-hearted people ask you how you feel now. On Sunday, you begin to walk about again, and take solid food. And on Monday morning, as, with your bag and um¬brella in your hand, you stand by the gangway, waiting to step ashore, you begin to thoroughly like it.
I remember my brother-in-law going for a short sea trip once for the benefit of his health. He took a return berth from London to Liverpool; and when he got to Liverpool, the only thing he was anxious about was to sell that return ticket.
It was offered round the town at a tremendous reduction; so I am told; and was eventually sold for eighteen pence to a youth who had just been advised by his medical man to go to the seaside, and take exercise.
"Seaside!" said my brother-in-law, pressing the ticket af¬fectionately into his hand; "why, you'll get enough to last you a lifetime; and as for exercise! why, you'll get more ex¬ercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
He himself — my brother-in-law — came back by train. He said the North-Western Railway was healthy enough for him.
Answer the questions
1. What made the narrator object to the sea trip? 2. Who does he compare himself with on Monday? 3. What does he want to do On Wednesday, Thursday and Friday? 4. When does he take solid foot? 5. Why did his brother-in-law sell his return ticket? 6. How did he describe the advantages of a sea trip to the youth who bought his ticket? 7. How did he return home?
Лексические упражнения
journey n •— the distance covered and the time spent in going from one place to another, e.g.: I go to work by train and the journey takes 50 minutes.
voyage n — is similar, but is used mainly of sea journeys (or sometimes journeys in space), e.g.: I've never made a sea-voyage.
flight n — a journey by plane, e.g.: Take some books to read on the flight.
cruise n — a sea-voyage for pleasure, e.g.: I'd love-to go on a cruise.
trip n — a short journey from one place to another, e.g.: Did you enjoy your day trip to the country?
tour n — a) a journey during which several places are visited, e.g. a tour round Europe; b) a short trip to or through a place, e.g.: We went on a guided tour round the castle.
hitch-hiking n — travelling by getting free rides in passing automobiles and walking between rides, e.g.: Hitch-hiking is a new way of travelling which gives one a chance to see much without spending anything.
1. Fill in appropriate words (consult the list of synonyms)
1. I'd be delighted to go on a sea ..., but my wife has never been a good sailor, so we can't join you.
2. The Italian... was really exciting. We visited a number of won¬derful towns and then returned to Rome. The ... back to Mos¬cow by railway took us about three days.
3. It is delightful to come ashore after a long ... and to feel solid ground under one's foot.
4. Many times on his long ... in the depths of Africa, in the jungle of the Amazon he faced danger, starvation and death.
5. I'm just reading a very amusing book about a pleasure party making a Caribbean ... in somebody's yacht.
6. Young people are naturally fond of... as a way of visiting new places and seeing things: it is cheap and gives one a feeling of freedom and infinite horizons.
7. You're looking pale. A ... to the sea¬side will do you good.
8. Have you ever taken a holiday ... along the Black Sea coast or down the Volga?
9. When travelling you have to give special thought, not only to your route, but to what you wear and eat during your ... .
10. The National Theatre is on ... in the North.
11. It must be the bird's first ... from the nest.
2. Here are a number of different places where you can spend a holiday. Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right:
1. camp a. accommodation like a hotel but cheaper and with fewer services
2. self-catering flat b. a place providing holiday accommodation in little chalets or flats, with restaurants, bars, swimming pools and lots of oth¬er facilities and entertainment
3. guesthouse c. a place where you can pitch a tent or park a caravan
4. youth hostel d. accommodation which one owns, say, a 26th part of and so has the right to stay there for 2 weeks every year
5. holiday camp e. cheap accommodation, mainly for young people, with, per¬haps ten or more people sleep¬ing in bunk beds in one room
6. time-share apartment f. flat which you rent, you cook for yourself